Thinking of replacing your boot drive with an Advanced Format disk in your older Intel BIOS based Linux server? Though it shouldn't be necessary on a GPT based drive, get ready to ignore fdisk warnings and set that boot flag. Using parted to align your partitions? Get ready to use fdisk again.

Added a Seagate ST3000DM001 to my D945GCLF2D over the weekend. Let's just say I learned plenty about MBR, GPT, BIOS Boot Partition, GRUB2 installing to the MBR of the first drive (even if it happens to be your installation media), etc.

Legacy BIOS Issues with GPT. by Rod Smith, rodsmith@rodsbooks.com. Last Web page update: 6/26/2011, referencing GPT fdisk version 0.7.2. Support This Project. Note: This page is part of the documentat...